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This section describes how to upgrade the Charon-HPA software to a new version. It covers the following points:


Important information for software upgrades:

Upgrading to this Charon-HPA from an older version requires a license update. Please contact your VAR or Stromasys representative to plan the update.

Charon-HPA version 2.0 and higher is incompatible with licences of earlier versions. Earlier product versions are incompatible with licenses for Charon-HPA 2.0 and higher. Software licenses may have to be newly created from a fingerprint file during an upgrade from versions before Charon-HPA 1.10.

Charon-HPA Software Packages Overview

Charon-HPA is provided as a set of rpm-packages.

The following table lists the required installation packages (the placeholder <version> denotes the version of the package):

Package
Description
aksusbd-<version>.i386.rpmSentinel runtime environment. Required for licensing the Charon-HPA software
charon-license-<version>.x86_64.rpmLicense related libraries and utilities
charon-mtd-<version>.x86_64.rpmCharon-HPA tape utility
hpa-<version>.x86_64.rpmCharon-HPA emulator executable, template configuration files for different supported hardware models


Obtaining the Charon-HPA software:

The software can be downloaded from the Stromasys fileserver. If required, please contact your Stromasys representative or your VAR partner. They will provide the download information or the software packages to you.


Upgrade Commands Overview

The following table provides an overview of the upgrade commands for the supported host operating systems. For details, please refer to the relevant man-pages on Linux. The table only lists command-line options for Linux. There are also graphical tools. To describe all of them is outside the scope of this document.

Upgrade Options
Description
Package manager (uses repositories, takes care of dependencies, etc.)

# yum update <package-name>

(Older versions may need localupdate instead of update for local packages; newer versions use local operation if package name is a file name.)

Command to upgrade individual local packages# rpm -U </path/to/package>

Upgrading the Charon-HPA Software

To install the Charon-HPA packages perform the following steps:


Step
Command
1Log in as the privileged user on the system ("root").
2Go to the directory in which the rpm packages were stored.

# cd <path-to-kits-dir>

3Update the Charon-HPA packages.

# yum update *.rpm

or

# rpm -U *.rpm

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